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♦ Polling under way as 15 candidates contest Karachi’s NA-245 by-poll: Strict security arrangements ensured outside all polling stations: Mustafa Kamal says MQM people are sitting inside the polling stations

♦ Bulbul-e-Pakistan Nayyara Noor passes away

♦ Pemra slaps ban on live telecast of Imran Khan’s speeches: Rana Sanaullah hints at action against PTI chairman over his threat to police officers and female magistrate: Coalition parties demand legal action

♦ PTI tries to send Shahbaz Gill’s ‘fake’ mother, sisters to Pims Hospital

♦ 728 have died so far in recent rains and floods, says NDMA report: Majority who died are from Balochistan whose number is 207: Majority who injured are from Sindh whose number is 701: Collectively, 309 men, 156 women and 263 children have lost lives: Larkana roof collapse leaves three dead

♦ Three children among four dead in Indian-made mine blast in Zafarwal

♦ Rs4.69 increase in electricity tariff on the cards: Nepra petitioned to raise the power rate: Decision on August 31

♦ 7-member family drowned in Malik Stream: Body of woman found

♦ Pakistan logs 468 coronavirus cases, two deaths: NIH data shows positivity ratio inches up to 2.64%: Iran approves locally-developed Barkat vaccine: India records 11,539 Covid-19 cases, 34 deaths

♦ Pakistan clash with Netherlands in third cricket one-dayer today